Bard College Center for Civic Engagement Cosponsors Talk on Book About Student Voting Rights at Tuskegee University

Thursday, January 15, 2026

1:00 pm EST/GMT-5 

Tuskegee University

Kennedy Hall Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Tuskegee University

On January 15th, Tuskegee University is hosting a special talk on a book and four short documentaries focusing on the fight for voting rights on US college campuses. The book, Youth Voting Rights: Civil Rights, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and the Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses, uses the history of the 26th Amendment and the ongoing fight to promote and defend youth voting rights as a prism through which to teach the history of the struggle for the fundamental right to vote in the United States. 

The event will feature a reading and conversation with book editors and authors representing Bard College, Tuskegee University, the North Carolina A&T State University and the United Negro College Fund.

The event will feature talks by coeditors Jonathan Becker, professor of political studies, vice president for academic affairs and director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College, and Yael Bromberg, Esq., a constitutional rights litigator, leading legal scholar of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and election law professor at American University Washington College of Law. Other speakers include Jelani Favors, vice president of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute at the United Negro College Fund, Lisa Bratton, an associate professor of History at Tuskegee University, and Erin Cannan, Bard College’s vice president for Civic Engagement. 

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